Kurt Vile – “The Creature”

September 7, 2011

Kurt Vile announced a new EP today, in which the singer-songwriter has 5 new songs to share along with a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Downbound Train.” While these tunes didn’t make the cut for his most recent album, Smoke Ring For My Halo, sessions for that record yielded some interesting — and, yeah, laudable — results. To wit, the opening cut, “The Creature,” is here to preview ahead of the set’s November 8 release; So Outta Reach is the EP’s name, here’s its game: